“An Enemy of the People” is being staged in a place named for a friend of theater artists. Intrepid Shakespeare’s first show of 2012 goes up in the new Clayton E. Liggett Theatre, whose late namesake was a legendary, longtime drama teacher at the then-San Dieguito High.

Among Liggett’s students was one Eddie Mueller, later to become known as the lead singer Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. (Vedder was moved to write the Pearl Jam song “Long Road” when he learned of Liggett’s death in 1995.)

The theater is part of an $8.9 million performing arts complex that opened at the academy last year. And Sean Cox, who is co-directing Henrik Ibsen’s classic “Enemy” with his wife, fellow Intrepid founder Christy Yael, has his own connection to the place’s heritage. It turns out Cox’s high school drama teacher was once a student of Liggett’s.